I Read A Lot Of Scripts And

I Think The Consensus Among Our Generation And People Younger Than Us Is That We Do Have A Defining Challenge In The Moment, So I Do Like Being Involved In Something Bigger Than The Finger-doodling I Do In Art. It Stimulates Your Brain In Certain Ways.

To Me, Fight Club Was A Comedy. When [david] Fincher Sent Me The Book And I Read It, The First Thing I Asked Him Was, "this Is A Comedy, Right?" He Said, "yeah, That's The Whole Point," And I Said, "okay, I'm In." I Certainly Wasn't Imagining Myself As A Dramatic Actor When I Was Running Around In My Underwear In That Film.

You Never Make All Things For All People And Can't Always Pander To The Broadest Denominator. I Keep An Eye Toward Doing The Themes That Interest Me. Do They Move Me? Interest Me? Make Me Think? When I Run Across Something That Is Provocative In An Unsettling Way, It Appeals To Me.

Any Questions I Had About Whether A Redneck From Oklahoma Could Become A Brown Classical Philosophy Professor Ended When I Met Tim [blake Nelson].

I Read A Lot Of Scripts And So Many Are Clearly A Knockoff Of One Familiar Genre Or Another.